Overview

Chinese Government donates 2.2 million Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine doses — via COVAX — worth $39.6 million in March 2022

Commitments (Constant USD, 2023)$37,418,798

Commitment Year•2022Country of Activity•MyanmarDirect Recipient Country of Incorporation•MyanmarSector•HealthFlow Type•Grant

Status

Project lifecycle

Completion

Pipeline: PledgePipeline: CommitmentImplementationCompletion

Timeline

Key dates

Commitment date: Mar 30, 2022

Start (actual): Mar 30, 2022

End (actual): Mar 30, 2022

Stakeholders

Organizations involved in projects and activities supported by financial and in-kind transfers from Chinese government and state-owned entities

Funding agencies

Government Agencies

Unspecified Chinese Government Institution

Receiving agencies

Government Agencies

Government of Myanmar (Burma)

Implementing agencies

Government Agencies

Government of Myanmar (Burma)

Loan description

Chinese Government donates 2.2 million Sinovac Covid-19 vaccine doses — via COVAX — worth $39.6 million in March 2022

Narrative

Full Description

Project narrative

On March 30, 2022, the Chinese Government donated 2.2 million additional doses of Sinovac Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Myanmar via COVID-19 Vaccines Global Access (COVAX) — a worldwide initiative aimed at equitable access to COVID-19 vaccines directed by the GAVI vaccine alliance, the Coalition for Epidemic Preparedness Innovations, the World Health Organization, and UNICEF. In 2021 and 2022, the Chinese Government donated approximately 23.7 million doses of Covid-19 vaccines to the Government of Myanmar.

Staff comments

1. According to the UNICEF COVID-19 Vaccine Market Dashboard, the price of a single Sinopharm/Sinovac COVID-19 vaccine dose is $18 (https://www.oecd.org/officialdocuments/publicdisplaydocumentpdf/?cote=DCD/DAC/STAT(2022)33&docLanguage=En). As such, AidData has estimated the monetary value of the March 2022 donation as $39.6 million.